The
results of the Fourth ICFP programming contest are out.
First place went to
Haskell
Carrots.
The
Dylan
Hackers came second, with most of the team using
Gwyddion Dylan,
which would indicate that the current version is in a
very usable state. Dylan is interesting for the reason
outlined in the contest write-up:
A major design goal of Dylan is to produce a language in
which complex programs can be rapidly prototyped in the same
way as with dynamically-typed languages such as Smalltalk or
Lisp or "scripting" languages, while at the same time
enabling performance comparable to statically typed
languages such as C or ML.
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